I rarely write reviews for classes, but I had to for this one. This class was easily my favorite of all that I have taken at UCLA. Every class was genuinely engaging and so interesting that I would never find that my attention was wandering during lecture. As someone who grew up reading many of the texts from the class, I never realized how much was going over my head until I took the course. The class grade consisted of 10 short reading responses (which help to study later for the midterm), a midterm, attendance, a final essay, and a final exam. None of the exams were unreasonable (I just took the final, so don't know my final grade yet) but they definitely required attending the lectures. I would absolutely recommend this class.

Since its Writing 2, its definitely writing intensive. He didn't post the lecture slides, so you need to come to lecture. Participation in discussions are graded. You're practically guaranteed an A though. Only 1 midterm which was completely online (which he gave you a study guide of the exact vocab and locations that would be on the exam). At his final exam review, he read us all the exact questions he would have on the final exam. There's one big 10 page essay due at the end of the quarter as well, but if you get a lot of feedback from the TAs, you'll land an A easy.

The workload for this class was very manageable. My TA was awesome but the lecture itself got a little boring at times. The class was also just a lot of history and writing rather than writing reflection and learning how to write better. It was chill and I would consider it a easier GE.

THIS IS A WRITING 2 CLASS. I didn't realize that going into it, and when I got my first draft of my final paper back I was shocked. I do recommend taking this class because it is very interesting and the professor is very passionate and engaging with the lectures, but go into it knowing this is a writing 2 class. The weekly papers aren't bad at all, nor are the tests. They are pretty much making sure you read and understood the material. The final paper, which is worth like 50%, is the thing that matters. The expect your writing to be at a publishable PhD thesis level and will grade it as such. They do have a first and second draft of the paper, so make sure to spend a lot of time on the first draft, and then spend even more time on the second draft. Overall, fun class but hard final paper. You will do fine if you spend time doing the paper and understanding the material.